Prose and PoetryR. Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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... London clergy imploring them not to judge of the dissenting body from the servile adulation which had lately filled the London Gazette , and ex- horting them , placed as they were in the van of this great fight , to play the men for the ...
... London clergy imploring them not to judge of the dissenting body from the servile adulation which had lately filled the London Gazette , and ex- horting them , placed as they were in the van of this great fight , to play the men for the ...
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... London , taken and administered this oath , and had thus , by implication , asserted that the powers conferred on them by the legislature of Scotland accompanied them to England . It was resolved that they had been guilty of a high ...
... London , taken and administered this oath , and had thus , by implication , asserted that the powers conferred on them by the legislature of Scotland accompanied them to England . It was resolved that they had been guilty of a high ...
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... London had often reminded him of some parts of that noble poem in which Juvenal had described the misery and degradation of a needy man of letters , lodged among the pigeons ' nests in the tottering garrets which overhung the streets of ...
... London had often reminded him of some parts of that noble poem in which Juvenal had described the misery and degradation of a needy man of letters , lodged among the pigeons ' nests in the tottering garrets which overhung the streets of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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